DEA Speciat Agent Mike Garbo in an undated photo. - (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration)(NEW YORK) It has been a particularly perilous week for federal law enforcement. On Monday, DEA Special Agent Michael Garbo, a 16-year veteran of the agency, was shot and killed during an operation in Tucson, Arizona. What started as a routine investigation with DEA agents following up on tips that illegal drugs were being transported on an Amtrak train from California turned deadly as agents closed in on a suspected drug dealer. The Tucson incident was one of three shootings in the past week that left at least 4 agents killed or wounded. As of Oct. 5, 55 law enforcement officers had been killed or wounded so far this year, approaching the five-year high set in 2018. Another agent was also shot but not killed in the operation. On Tuesday an ATF agent was shot and critically wounded in Nashville after a suspect opened fire team of agents looking to arrest him as he sat in his parked in his car ou
DEA Speciat Agent Mike Garbo in an undated photo. - (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration)(NEW YORK) It has been a particularly perilous week for federal law
Officials on Thursday identified the armed passenger who died in a gunfight after fatally shooting a federal agent inside an Amtrak train in Arizona as Darrion Taylor.